Hey Kate, it's Mom!

Well, I was attending Togate High School in Warwick, Rhode Island when Title IX became

law in 1972.

I had just finished my sophomore year.

Growing up, I was a huge sports fan.

Avid, Boston Red Sox, and Providence College, Friars Basketball, because my father,

those were his teams and they became mine.

Once from an early age, I played baseball with the neighborhood boys and I was decent.

I could hit, I could field, it was my sport until it couldn't be anymore.

In high school, we had a small girls basketball team.

It was the only girls sport I remember from high school.

And although I loved basketball so much, I had never played it.

I don't even remember a nearby court week ago too.

And if I wanted to learn it in early age, like I did informally with baseball, the

infrastructure just wasn't there.

So I didn't really know how to play and had no confidence that I could be good and I

would want to be good.

The girls who were on the team were called Jockets.

I'm kind of using air quotes.

There was a little bit of an u-end out to that and it wasn't horrible, but it was there.

So I didn't want to be a Jocket.

I wanted to be a cheerleader to cheer on the freaking boys.

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